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STRANGE CHARGE AGAINST BRITISH SECRET SERVICE.
MA CHAN-SHAN'S
THREAT
TO TSITSIHAR.
THE SITUATION AGAIN ACUTE
JAPAN RUSHING NEW TROOPS.
TIENTSIN ALSO.
Tientsin, Dec. I.
The Japanese garrison at Tients'n is being reinforced by over h thousand men, equipped with field-guns and machine-guns, according to authoritative Chinese sour-
cea.
They report that three hun- dred Japanese marines and three companies (about 756; men) of Japanese troops
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Involved in Manchuria Arms Smuggling Scandal.
Night Scene at Mukden Railway Station Troopa ready for embarkation. The main body of bridge was rushed to Tsitsion last night in view of the Ma Chan ahan's thentroned attack on the city.
Tariff Tentacles Spreading.
M. Flandin's Visit: Trade Barrier, War
rived at Tangkú at six o'clock Debts, Pound Stabilisation Discussed.
last night and are expected to, reach the Japanese Concession
in Tientsin this morning.
The Atuation In the city quiet all day yesterday, though the heavy inlux of refugees to the Concessions from the native city. cort-nues.
Reports from Tokyo Indleate that the Ma Chan-shan menace in tho Tatsihar region is again becoming serious and preparations nɛe being! made for a further collision, which is regarded as inevitable.
Apparently Ma Chan-shan jesen- ed of the withdrawal of certain of the Japanese troops from Tsitsilae.
Late despatches From Mukden state that owing to the acute situation arising from Ma Chan-shan's move- ments, the main body of a whale Brigade was despatch- ed to Taitaihar last evening as reinforcements.
Evacuation in the Lino River re-i gion, carried out at the express order of the Emperor on Baron Shidehara's appeal, is nearly com-; plete-Router.
Comnions Statement.
London, Nov. 30. Sir John Simon, in the mouse of Commons this evening, announced that the League of Nations Coun- ell was continuing its efforts to And a solution of the Manchurian problem.
It was earnestly hoped that their | joint endeavours would result in чиесева.
Sir John Simon abo stated that
London, Nav, 30,
froma
ing an economic agreement will be: opened shortly,
The President of the Board of Trade has issued a ser and order under the Abnormal Importations Act, which imposes December 1, a duty of fifty per cent, ad valorem, on glassware (unseigntile), yarns wholly or party wool.
usehold linea tissues wholly
or partly jute, sporting Kans, candles,
spoons and forks,
M. Flandin, interviewed, lined to deny or to confirm the
part of the proposed discussions, ļ which have been felt necessary as
avy turlife.
Pcept those of silver or gold result of British imposition of battery carbone, and coir mats.
Immediately following the return!
of M. Blandin, French Minister of Finance, from London to Paris, it Was announced that Franco-British negutiutions with a view to reach!
THE EVE OF
HISTORIC STATEMENT.
INDIA DELEGATES
EXPECTANT.
A full scheme for Federal Government must be offered India. This was the sense of the opinions expressed by the majority of the speakers at yesterday's plenary session of the Round Table Coo- ference.
During the afternoon, a mes- according to information avaliable sage was despatched to the
to British representatives in China, King-Emperor tendering loyal no Bino-Japanese fighting had oe-and heartfelt gratitude for curred in the past ten daya.
According to press reports, the withdrawal of Japanese troops in to the Raliway Zone was proceed ing to the utmost extent possible, but no offelal news to this effect had been receiveil,
Britain's Interests.
Replying
He stated, however, that in thei churke of informal conversa- tions in London, aff kindred sub- jects to the economic problem, such stabilisation If the portard Sterling, war debts and reparations,| were discussed. Reuter,
HELE
THE THORBURN MURDER.
COMPENSATION CLAIM.
$100,000.
(Our Own Correspondent).
Shanghai, Dec. 1. I understand that the com-
claimed by pensation
the parents of John Hay Thorburn, shot dead by a Chinese military officer in June last, amounts to $100,000.
1:
The indemnity claim was, it is gracious favours once more re-stated in Shanghai, placed in the celved at His Majesty's hands. hands of the Consul-General, Mr.
J. F. Brenan. no November Your Majesty's unfailing solici
"They are deeply conscious of Inst. tude for the well-being of the Princes and the people of their Motherland and they believe Your Majesty needs no assurance that
India ไวด Federation,
Jet
her heart
QUEER STORY FROM MOSCOW.
JAPANESE ARRESTED IN MUKDEN & DAIREN.
SOURCE OF SUPPLY TO MA CHAN-SHAN.
Miss Perry Salaman, the nineteen year old Landon society girl, with her pilot, Mr. Gordon Store, who returned to England yesterday
after their wonderful record breaking fight to the Cape
Moscow, Nov. 30. SENSATIONAL rumours to the effect that British intelligence Service agents are involved in a remarkable Japanese scandal concerning the smuggling of arms and ammunition to General Ma Chan-shan, China's "hero of the Manchurian war," are mentioned in a telegram from Peking to the Tass Agency. TWO FOREIGN WOMEN
Presumably the interest of the Soviet Government
in the alleged smuggling scandal has not been lessened by the carlier Japanese accusations that General Ma Chan- shan has been getting munitions from Soviet friends across the Russian border,
The source of thanktartling information" and the
TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN JAVA.
POISONED.
HUSBAND HANGS
HIMSELF.
The whole of Jays has been a double
well respected florist of Bandoong
HEAVY STERLING SLUMP.
Drain on Resources in London.
basis for the "statements" is something of a mystery,hocked by ice of which is DOLLAR GOES UP. but the latest despatch published in Moscow concerning the affair suggests intrigue and counter-intrigue re- miniscent somewhat of the most "thrilling" of the William le Queux type of novel.
NUMEROUS ARRESTS IN D AIREN AND MUKDEN.
London, Nov. 30. The pound sterling slumped heavily to-day, both in New York
and in Continental centres, though the fall was not in proportion to the transactions recordad.
hanged himself after poisoning two women he had married.
The facts were brought to light by the suicide of G. J. Boom, of one of the busiest flower owner shops in Bandoeng, after following According to the story published to-day, mention- the ing the alleged interest of British secret service agents,ng two women he had married.
Landru, by poison- Free by the notorious numerous arrests are being made in Dairen and
The heavy drain on sterling During last year Boom, who was arises from the fact that Con- Mukden, involving Japanese employees in governmental married with two children, divore-tinental countries are drawing and semi-governmental institutions.
ed his wife, formerly widow nam on their balances in London to ed. Mrs. L. P. M. Degent, only to pay their debts abroad, They are, it is said, to be charged with participa-remarry her two weeks later.
Boom died on Jan. 3 of this
Reuter. ting in a gigantic scheme for the supply of arms to year, apparently from General Ma Chan-shan.
natural .causes, although there were
ed. rumoure that she had been poison-|
The telegram from Peking adds that three carloads of arms, despatched from Dairen to Tsitsihar for the use of the Chinese troops, have been detained at Mukden. AMERICAN AMONG FOREIGNERS IN CUSTODY.
Besides many Japanese, those arrested for complicity include an American, Poles, and Lithuanians.
The Japanese investigation into the scandal has been conducted with the greatest secrecy since the result of the preliminary inquiry VAH to
that show arins amuggling organisation was receiving the backing of prominent Japanese and non-Japanese officials in Manchuria. --Reuter
wards Ita ultimate constitutional destiny, it would always desire to continue a willing partner to the British Empire,
Divan Bahadur Ramachanura Raa said it was absolutely essen- lial for the sucesss of the future! on Federation to secure the co-opera- tion and goodwill of the peoples
in no other part of your realm is! Sir Phiroze Sethna declared that; of the States.
to Col. Wedgwood there a liveller sense of loyalty and serious consequences would follow (Lab) who urged the supreme in-devotion to Your Majesty's Throne if only Provincial Autonomy were forest of Great Britain in avoid and person."
ing all panctions and other warlike
commitments, Sir John Simon de-
Delegates Expectant.
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No concern need be felt regarding the present depreciation, though at one time during the day the pound reached the lowcat ever recorded in the United States, namely 3.38%. In May of this year Boom mar-
It recovered slightly later to ried again. This time he chose a 3.40/41. In Paris, the fall was widow named Mrs. 3. Boucher, who to 874, in Brussels to 25.9/16, had four grown-up children, This in Milan to 66. The fall as a wife lasted less than four months rule brought the pound to a gold for she died on Aug. 24.
parity value of about 14/-. Again ominous, storlea of poi- In Montreal, Stockholm and
The Silver Markets. Expectations of a heavy drop
the allegedning began to circulate and the other places off the gold standard, police held an autopsy, but there the fall was much slighter, of was no definite result.
course. The Canadian exchange Last month the polico renewed was down to 8.98, about 18/7. their inquiries and the bodies of both women were exhumed. Ex- amination revealed large quanti- tica of arsenic.
in silver, with markod reactiona Immediately Mr. B. J. Lambers, on the Hongkong dollar, in con- the Public Prosecutor, flew from sequence of the improved Man- Batavia to Bandoeng and called churian outlook, were not realised.
Mr. Boom, who, however, to-day. denied everything. The following
RACECOURSE
TRICKSTER.
SIX MONTHS' GAOL SENTENCE.
on
It is true that silver declined morning Mr. Lambers again called somewhat both in
London
and on Mr. Boom and, going into the New York, but other factors, house was horrified to find him notably
further
slump in sterling, Intervened.
The intense interast with which centre was given, their interest Politient aspirations and federal meeed to six month's hard la- circles.
atatement was finally
on
tram
STOLEN FROM PARK STAND.
P.W.D. OFFICIAL'S CAR MISSING.
Speculators Buying.
In London, America and China nold, and India and speculators bought After the offelal fixing, the maritot ruled very quiet, with no special fenture. The New York Įmarket was erratic.
The Hongkong dollar opened at ts. 4.5/16d, on demand, this re- presenting an advance of a farth- ing
yesterday's quotation. Shanghal is up to Is, 10.1/8d., with the market, uncertain.
on
An unsuccessful attempt to ob-hanged. tain a dividend of $71.80 on a By the death of one of the wives All Reasonable Concessions. placed
Silver was down 5/16ths spot pony during Saturday's Boom received her whole fortune and 3/8ths forward in London offered. The Moslem und the
race meeting, by the deletion of amounting to Fl. 160,000. All reasonable concessions the second digit from Ticket No.
whilst the New York decline was other minorities rightly insisted should be made to their legitimate 14, had a Police Court ecquel this years of age. He was well
Boom was a robust man about 60 one point, the rate being 28.7/8 that when responsibility at the
re-eents. clared that the Government "was anxious to avoid recourse to sane- the delegates are awaiting the they failed to reach an agreement
when Yeung Tong was spected and moved in the best; citizenship should also be con-hour for uttering a forgery and re- should be safeguarded, but as ferred on them. tions regarding this or any other statement on behalf of the dispute which came before the Government, which the Premier among themselves, it now rested policy and a different organisation
A new organisation of military celving money by its means. League.
will make to-morrow, was again with the Government to settle the of the Indian Army was absolutely ed that he had been duped by a In his statement, accused plead- Thomfam, Inn fd. they were shown in lo-day's speeches. The communal differences and to call concentrating, with the other mem- Premier, who presided until a on Indians to work the now con-ecessary In view of the new friend into presenting the ticket in ber, ut tae Council, on finding a late hour, afterwards attended a stitution in a manner leading to political atatia now in sight, and the mistaken belief that it was solution to the problem by concilin meeting of the Cabinet, at which,peace and contentment.
the whole question of the place of friend when arrested by the police genuine. He was looking for the tlon. This principle, he said, un-it is understood, the Govern-i
Indianisation should be re-examined derlies the
and the mont's Covenant
Lord Reading's Speech by another committee.
Detective Sergeant Kennedy, who machinery provided therein as the considered.
Raja Sher. Muhammad Khan, of prosecuted said that the accused Lord Reading sald the method Domedi, as the representative of was known to the Palice za one of basis of collective setion.-Reuter.
During the sitting, Mr. Jayakar of the conference had been com-the enlisted classes, endorsed then criminal gang whose members Works Donartment, has reported CHINA'S OFFER TO LEAGUE.
said the achome had three angles, pletely vindicated, and he hoped Federation, Central reaponsibility, that the method would continue. Foderal, Structure Committee's were. frequenters of the course at to the pollen the loss of his Flat and the safeguards. It had bean They could not hope at this con- Proposal for establishing athens meetings.
Chater A communique Issued by the accepted by Congress, India's ference to reach a full agreement, Council in India analogous Chinese delegation in Paris an-gratest political 'organisation. nounces that if the retirement of -the Japanese troops from the Chinchow region is confirmed by neutral observers on the spot and no fresh incident, has occurred, the Chinese will then accent the Council's reso❜ation and will not Inslat- upon their demand for the. complete evacuation of Manchuria by the Japaamo on a fixed dateju
Parla, Dec. 1.
the
but sufficient agreement might be land.
Committee of Defence in Eng
roached enabling India to accopt There were many details to be the proposals to be put before worked out, but they had no Parliament by the British Govern son for mutilating the scheme by offering, only part of it to India, mont.
If the Government brought out a whole scheme, making their inten- tions clear, and providing for the removal, of the difficultiem, step by
Although he was the oldest of
Mr. H. J. Pearce, of the Public
Locally, the market is quiet, motorond last night.
which was parked in with no-one inclined to do business. Yesterday, the tendency won de- The park was left on the stand cidedly caay, but to-day the post- at 9.30 p.m. and when Mr. Pearce tion free India to stand side by side went for it avain at 11.50 p.m. he influence of the cross-rate is the,
vory uncertain. The Ho repadiated suggestions that with Britain in an equal partners found it had disappeared.
muin factor in the situation at the -the sire of the army in India and skip. the number of DrJUgh troons should!
moment. Right Perspective, .. be reduced. No constitution could
Gold is now quoted at £5 17. Sardar Sampuran Singh hoped: be worked unless they were free
Kohar Singh, charged with dis-11d. par ounce. from foreign #Egression wad- in-that when the people of the several orderly, behaviour towards fernal disordern.
communitities in India. had an Singh, priest at the Sikh Temple,
was alleged to
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linve The Royal Observatory reports that
the drierkies, he devoutly praved he might lire to see the Federation of All-India in nelivo being, that
Mre. Naidu, the postess, saked opportunity of managing their whom the Federated Indisisht be for the grant of complete liberty own affairs, they would get the threatened violence, was bound over strong anticyclone has formed ovse prosperond and happy in ita future,
(Continued on Page 7.) able: tluce, was taken corne Homme above all, as it progress toll which would make it possible for
Indians woold surely be patient, providing only a“ raRDON-
by Mr. Schofield at the Central Police B.Ex Mongolia. • A depresion -. In Court this morning to keep the peace, shown to the east of Hokkaido,